Polly Toynbee Quotes
People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death.
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Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there. It's a great town.
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I do not believe in any legacy. The past is dead and gone.
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Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.
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I told the Mucinex people, 'You picked me because I always sound sick'. They were like, 'Well, it doesn't hurt'.
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Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
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I was raised to treat my body as a temple, but even as a little girl, I had a major issue with self-esteem. I thought there was something wrong with the temple.
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In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.
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Americans have the right under the Second Amendment to own firearms, and that is not going to change.
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Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
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I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.
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Ignorance and prejudice make for bad advisers.
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Together, Amazon and I are giving readers what they want - inexpensive, professional ebooks.
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And my friends, you ain't seen nothin' yet.
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If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.
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Stuxnet, a computer worm reportedly developed by the United States and Israel that destroyed Iranian nuclear centrifuges in attacks in 2009 and 2010, is often cited as the most dramatic use of a cyber weapon.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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All athletes speak about the mental element of athletics, and it usually boils down to the same thing: if you can remove your ego from the game, you can function with much more clarity and you are more likely to succeed. Wouldn't it be interesting if we all began speaking about the mental element of our lives in this way?
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There is no way that anyone who - besides the folks that want to plain ignore facts - there's no way that anyone can say that by building that wall we are not going to accomplish a more secure border. It's just proven. We can do this.
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Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.
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Einstein repeatedly argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer. Much of the complexity he must master is arbitrary complexity … because they were designed by different people, rather than by God.
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We have to ask the tough questions.
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People want the right to die at a time of their own choosing. Too many families have watched helplessly as a relative dies slowly, longing for death.
